Long before Tyrannosaurus rex stalked the planet, a Dragon Prince reigned supreme. Paleontologists have discovered a new ...

A reexamination of fossils found in Mongolia has revealed a previously unknown “missing link” species that led to dinosaurs ...

A newly identified mid-sized dinosaur from Mongolia dubbed the "Dragon Prince" has been identified as a pivotal forerunner of ...

Altogether, the pieces reveal a slender tyrannosaur that roamed Cretaceous Mongolia about 86 million years ago and was about ...

Fossils had been abandoned in a drawer at the scientific institute in the city of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The bones, discovered in the 1970s, had not been assigned to the correct species. It was only ...

Misidentified bones that languished in the drawers of a Mongolian institute for 50 years belong to a new species of ...

Those bones belong to a new species, now named Khankhuuluu mongoliensis, or “Prince of Dragons.” This slim, fast-moving ...

For half a century, the fossils sat in the drawers at the Institute of Paleontology of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences in ...

Khankhuuluu mongoliensis lived roughly 86 million years ago and was an immediate precursor to the dinosaur lineage called ...

Later migrations back and forth between Asia and North America helped shape tyrannosaur diversity, producing both massive species like Tarbosaurus bataar and smaller, slimmer ones like ...